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Bill Maris: How Google Could Crush AI Competitors, Why Small Funds Win, and AI's Atari Stage

aired Jun 09, 2026 · 28.0m
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Summary

After saying he was out, now Bill Maris is returning to the investing world. The founding CEO of Google Ventures has raised $150 million for his new fund called Section 32.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of going, fund, think, including: The founding CEO of Google Ventures has raised $150 million for his new fund called Section 32.

Key takeaways
  1. 01Any other metric is impossible to measure and therefore won't succeed
  2. 02Design the ideal portfolio construction by running millions and millions of simulations and back testing and all of the things you can imagine that data scientists would do And to
  3. 03Here's a headline from TechCrunch at the time
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